EP0925627B1 - Apparatus and method of monitoring battery temperature during charging - Google Patents

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EP0925627B1
EP0925627B1 EP97941496A EP97941496A EP0925627B1 EP 0925627 B1 EP0925627 B1 EP 0925627B1 EP 97941496 A EP97941496 A EP 97941496A EP 97941496 A EP97941496 A EP 97941496A EP 0925627 B1 EP0925627 B1 EP 0925627B1
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02J—CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY
    • H02J7/00—Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02J—CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY
    • H02J7/00—Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
    • H02J7/0068—Battery or charger load switching, e.g. concurrent charging and load supply
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01M—PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY
    • H01M10/00—Secondary cells; Manufacture thereof
    • H01M10/42—Methods or arrangements for servicing or maintenance of secondary cells or secondary half-cells
    • H01M10/44—Methods for charging or discharging
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02J—CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY
    • H02J7/00—Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
    • H02J7/007—Regulation of charging or discharging current or voltage
    • H02J7/007188—Regulation of charging or discharging current or voltage the charge cycle being controlled or terminated in response to non-electric parameters
    • H02J7/007192—Regulation of charging or discharging current or voltage the charge cycle being controlled or terminated in response to non-electric parameters in response to temperature
    • H02J7/007194—Regulation of charging or discharging current or voltage the charge cycle being controlled or terminated in response to non-electric parameters in response to temperature of the battery
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
    • Y02E60/00—Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
    • Y02E60/10—Energy storage using batteries
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S320/00—Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging
    • Y10S320/12—Precharging analysis, e.g. determining presence of battery

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  • the present invention relates generally to the charging of batteries and, in particular, to an apparatus and method for monitoring the temperature of a battery during charging which may also be utilized to provide power to a portable communication device.
  • Another factor important to the charging of a battery is its temperature, as certain types of rechargeable batteries (e.g., lithium and nickel-cadmium) have a tendency to gas or even explode when excess temperatures are reached due to overcharging.
  • the battery temperature also has a bearing on whether the handheld mobile telephone or other portable communication device should be charged or powered. Therefore, it is desirable for the battery temperature to be monitored not only by the charger, but also by the portable communication device when it is in an operational state.
  • chargers exist for providing charge to batteries which are contemporaneously utilized to power a communication device (e.g., U.S. Patent 5,317,249 to Ford, U.S. Patent 5,150,031 to James et al., U.S. Patent 4,727,306 to Misak et al., and U.S. Patent 3.767.995 to Kaminski et al.). While these chargers appear to be useful for their intended purpose, they either interface directly with the communication device or are complicated by a number of circuits and/or components, thereby increasing the cost for both the charger and the associated battery.
  • Japanese application JP-A-08,098,422 (having an equivalent in U.S. Patent 5,608,304) likewise discloses a charger for a battery with positive and negative terminals and a thermistor connected between the negative terminal and a third terminal.
  • the charger has a contact for each of the three terminals and includes a switching device 26 which can be closed to connect a biasing source to the thermistor. It will be seen that this charger does not include a logic circuit which controls the switch according to the voltage received from the thermistor terminal when the switching device is open.
  • a primary objective of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method which permits simultaneous monitoring of battery temperature by a charger and a portable communication device during charging of a battery which may be utilized to provide power to the portable communication device.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method of charging a battery which includes a protocol for biasing a thermistor in the battery so that the battery temperature can be separately monitored by a charger and a portable communication device which may be powered by such battery.
  • a further object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method of charging a battery which eliminates any conflict between a charger and a portable communication device which may be powered by such battery in being able to read the battery temperature.
  • Yet another object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for charging a battery which determines whether a portable communication device is connected to such battery and is in an operational state.
  • Fig. 1 depicts a handheld mobile telephone 10 received by a battery charger 12 so that a battery pack 14 (shown in Figs. 2A and 2B) can be charged while also being available to supply power to handheld mobile telephone 10 in accordance with the present invention.
  • Handheld mobile telephone 10 includes a main housing 16 which contains signal processing circuitry (not shown) therein for operating it in a designated mode of communication.
  • battery pack 14 is of compatible shape and size so as to be positioned within a cavity in a rear surface (not shown) of main housing 16. More specifically, it will be seen from Fig. 3 that battery pack 14 includes a plurality of cells 15 having a positive terminal 18 and a negative terminal 20. A third terminal 22 is connected to negative terminal 20 via a thermistor 24 in order to provide a voltage indicative of the temperature for battery pack 14, as discussed further herein.
  • a first set of contacts 26, 28, and 30 are located on a surface 32 of a housing 34 for battery pack 14 (see Fig. 2A) and positioned so as to interface with corresponding contacts 36, 38, and 40 of handheld mobile telephone 10.
  • a second set of contacts 42, 44, and 46 are located on a surface 48 (preferably located opposite surface 32, as seen in Fig. 2B) of battery pack housing 34 and positioned so as to interface with corresponding contacts 50, 52, and 54 of battery charger 12. It will be seen that contacts 26 and 42 of battery pack 14 are connected to positive terminal 18, contacts 28 and 44 are connected to negative terminal 20, and contacts 30 and 46 are connected to third terminal 22.
  • contacts 36 and 38 of handheld mobile telephone 10 are connected to positive contact 26 and negative contact 28, respectively, while contact 40 is connected to third contact 30 when battery pack 14 is properly positioned within main housing 16 of handheld mobile telephone 10.
  • contacts 50 and 52 of battery charger 12 are connected to positive contact 42 and negative contact 44, respectively, while third contact 54 is connected to third contact 46 when battery pack 14 is properly positioned with respect to battery charger 12.
  • negative contacts 38 and 52 of handheld mobile telephone 10 and battery charger 12, respectively are also connected to ground.
  • a resettable fuse 55 is preferably located between positive terminal 18 and positive contacts 26 and 42 of battery pack 14 in order to limit the amount of current from entering battery cells 15, thereby protecting against shorting of battery pack 14.
  • handheld mobile telephone 10 includes a logic circuit 56 having an output 58 for on/off control of handheld mobile telephone 10, output 58 being connected to a voltage regulator 60 which is, in turn, connected to positive contact 36 of handheld mobile telephone 10.
  • a biasing resistor 66 is positioned between voltage regulator 60 and a node 68, node 68 being connected to third contact 40 of handheld mobile telephone 10. It will be understood that a regulated voltage V 1 is provided by voltage regulator 60 to biasing resistor 66 only when output 58 thereof is set to place handheld mobile telephone 10 in an operational or "on” state. Thus, no voltage is provided to biasing resistor 66 when handheld mobile telephone 10 is in a non-operational or "off” state.
  • logic circuit 56 has an input 70 connected to node 68, where an analog-to-digital converter in logic circuit 56 is able to read the voltage provided from battery pack 14 and convert it into a temperature therefor. Logic circuit 56 is then able to monitor the temperature of battery pack 14 during charging and determine whether handheld mobile telephone 10 should be charged and/or powered.
  • Battery charger 12 likewise includes a logic circuit 72 which has an input 74 connected to third contact 54 of battery charger 12. Input 74 is receptive of a voltage V 2 from third contact 46 of battery pack 14 indicative of the voltage across thermistor 24 within battery pack 14. Voltage V 2 is then compared to a threshold voltage V t so that logic circuit 72 is able to determine whether battery pack 14 is connected to handheld mobile telephone 10 and whether handheld mobile telephone 10 is in an operational state. It will be seen that logic circuit 72 of battery charger 12 has a first output 76 which is connected to a switching device 78, such as a transistor.
  • a switching device 78 such as a transistor.
  • First output 76 causes switching device 78 to be placed in a "closed” position when voltage V 2 is less than threshold voltage V t and otherwise maintains switching device 78 in an "open” position.
  • the position of switching device 78 is relevant in light of a second output 80 from logic circuit 72, which is utilized to activate a voltage regulator 82 to provide a regulated voltage to a biasing resistor 84 connected to switching device 78.
  • a current I 2 is used (or enabled) to bias thermistor 24 in battery pack 14; otherwise, current I 1 from handheld mobile telephone 10 is utilized to bias thermistor 24 (and current I 2 is disabled from biasing thermistor 24).
  • voltage V 2 will be substantially zero when handheld mobile telephone 10 is not operational (or not present) since no voltage V 1 is provided from voltage regulator 60 and voltage V 2 will also be connected to ground. Thus, voltage V 2 will be less than threshold voltage V 1 ( typically on the order of 25-50 millivolts), which signifies to logic circuit 72 that it should place switching device 78 in a closed position. Otherwise, voltage V 2 will remain greater than threshold voltage V t when voltage V 1 is provided and battery pack 14 is cool in temperature, as thermistor 24 is preferably a negative coefficient thermistor when biased as shown herein. In the case where voltage V t is provided and battery pack 14 is hot in temperature, voltage V 2 will maintain a minimum voltage greater than threshold voltage V t in order to signify to logic circuit 72 that switching device 78 remain open.
  • positive contact 50 of battery charger 12 is connected to a charge switch 86, which is in turn connected to logic circuit 72.
  • Charge switch 86 is also connected to an AC power source 88, such as a common wall outlet.
  • logic circuit 72 is able to control the charge current provided to battery pack 14 through positive contact 50, where one factor is the battery temperature read from battery pack 14.
  • logic circuit 72 determines whether the battery temperature read from third contacts 46 and 54 of battery pack 14 and battery charger 12, respectively, is within a designated temperature range (preferably 0-45°C). Provided the battery temperature remains within the designated temperature range, then logic circuit 72 needs only to determine whether charging of battery pack 14 is completed (by reference to certain known characteristics as absolute temperature, negative delta V, increasing temperature slope, absolute voltage, etc.) or if the charging process must be continued.
  • logic circuit 72 first determines whether a battery pack 14 is properly positioned therewith for charging by taking a reading across positive contact 50 and negative contact 52 thereof. If a battery pack 14 is properly positioned for charging, logic circuit 72 then places switching device 78 in an open position so that handheld mobile telephone 10 will bias thermistor 24 if it is in an operational state. Handheld mobile telephone 10 provides biasing current I 1 to thermistor 24 if it is in an operational state.
  • Charger 12 determines whether V 2 received at third contact 54 is less than threshold voltage V t , If the answer is yes, then logic circuit 72 closes switching device 78 so that biasing current I 2 of battery charger 12 is used to bias thermistor 24. Switching device 78 otherwise remains open if the answer is no. In essence, logic circuit 72 determines whether battery pack 14 is connected to an operational portable communication device so that it knows when battery charger 12 is to provide the biasing current to thermistor 24.
  • logic circuit 72 reads voltage V 2 from third contact 54 and converts it to a temperature of battery pack 14 via an analog-to-digital converter therein. Logic circuit 72 then causes switching device 78 to be placed in an open position before determining whether the converted temperature of battery pack 14 is within a designated temperature range (preferably 0-45°C). If the converted battery pack temperature is not within the designated temperature range, logic circuit 72 causes battery charger 12 to stop charging and returns to the beginning of the sequence via a feedback loop. Provided the converted battery pack temperature is within the designated temperature range, logic circuit 72 determines if charging of battery pack 14 is finished (in which case the voltage of battery pack 14 is maintained) or is continued. In either event, the overall process described is continued so long as battery charger 12 is connected to battery pack 14.
  • a designated temperature range preferably 0-45°C

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